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100 Animated Feature Films: Revised Edition Andrew Osmond (Writer and journalist, Berkshire, UK) 9781839024412
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £58.7620 years ago, animated features were widely perceived as cartoons for children. Today they encompass an astonishing range of films, styles and techniques. There is the powerful adult drama of Waltz... -
What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.74The issue of video games and their harmful/helpful effects on children and young adults is a hot topic. The Hardback sold very well. The book does not shy away from controversy, even finding good... -
A Book about the Film Monty Python's Life of Brian: All the References from Assyrians to Zeffirelli Darl Larsen 9781538103654
RRP: £48.00SciFier: £31.61As a follow-up to their first true feature film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the comic troupe next decided to tackle a "shadow" version of the Christ story. Shot in the Middle East and produced... -
Atlas at War by Michael Vassallo
SciFier: £46.59Atlas at War! collects fifty hard-hitting stories from Atlas Comics, the company that became Marvel Comics and published more war titles than anyone in the industry between the years 1951 and 1960... -
Behooved M. Stevenson 9781399738521
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.69The fate of the kingdom is riding on them.Bianca knows her duty comes before her heart. So when the threat of war looms, she agrees to marry the neighbouring kingdom's heir. But not all royal... -
Dissent and Social Media: The Role of Social Media in Facilitating Cultural Change Matthew T. Pifer 9781839993909
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £72.00The book considers the role social media platforms play in facilitating dissent as a function of cultural, and associated hegemonic, transformation. In this context, social media is one of the... -
I, Coriander Sally Gardner 9781444015676
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.72A stunning story set in seventeenth-century London and the fairy world, from a CARNEGIE MEDAL and COSTA-prizewinning author.The story is told by Coriander, daughter of a silk merchant in 1650s London... -
Writing Compelling Dialogue for Film and TV: The Art & Craft of Raising Your Voice on Screen Loren-Paul Caplin (Columbia University; NYU Tisch; Hofstra University, USA) 9780367256869
SciFier: £31.59Writing Compelling Dialogue for Film and TV is a practical guide that provides you, the screenwriter, with a clear set of exercises, tools, and methods to raise your ability to hear and discern... -
Thinking in Film: The Politics of Video Art Installation According to Eija-Liisa Ahtila Mieke Bal 9781472526915
SciFier: £103.49What is a moving image, and how does it move us? In Thinking In Film, celebrated theorist Mieke Bal engages in an exploration - part dialogue, part voyage - with the video installations of Finnish... -
Lois McMaster Bujold Edward James 9780252039324
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £72.25Readers have awarded Lois McMaster Bujold four Hugo Awards for Best Novel, a number matched only by Robert Heinlein. Her Vorkosigan series redefined space opera with its emotional depth and... -
Thinking in Film: The Politics of Video Art Installation According to Eija-Liisa Ahtila Mieke Bal 9781472532749
SciFier: £31.99What is a moving image, and how does it move us? In Thinking In Film, celebrated theorist Mieke Bal engages in an exploration - part dialogue, part voyage - with the video installations of Finnish... -
World Cinema, Theology, and the Human: Humanity in Deep Focus Antonio Sison (Catholic Theological Union, USA) 9781138921887
SciFier: £47.20Forging an open-minded but reasoned dialogue between nine acclaimed titles of world cinema, and a range of theological perspectives that touch on the theme of human experience, World Cinema,... -
This Poison Heart: From the author of the TikTok sensation Cinderella is Dead Kalynn Bayron 9781526632791
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.99_______________ 'Kalynn Bayron does more than re-write a fairy-tale ... She breaks it apart and rebuilds it into a wholly original and captivating story where girls finally decide for themselves... -
Covenant: The Art of Allen Williams by Allen Williams
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £20.46Covenant boasts the first collection of Allen's personal drawings and paintings. Each of his fantastical characters is accompanied by a line of text, a poem or a brief story that captures their... -
The Listeners Jordan Tannahill 9780008445430
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.93Fans of The Power will love this addictive novel' Stylist A masterful speculative novel exploring the fine lines between faith, conspiracy, and... -
Task Lyst Scott Hylbert 9781684423170
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £22.49Elliott is a struggling musician who is trying to piece together enough cash every month to keep his dream of performing alive while also paying his rent. That's when he discovered the new app TASK... -
Lois McMaster Bujold Edward James 9780252080852
SciFier: £24.97Readers have awarded Lois McMaster Bujold four Hugo Awards for Best Novel, a number matched only by Robert Heinlein. Her Vorkosigan series redefined space opera with its emotional depth and... -
Tinder by Sally Gardner
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £11.16Otto Hundebiss is tired of war, but when he defies Death he walks a dangerous path. A half beast half man gives him shoes and dice which will lead him deep into a web of dark magic and mystery. He... -
Urban Noir by James J. Ward
SciFier: £88.49Film noir has always been associated with urban landscapes, and no two cities have been represented more prominently in these films than New York and Los Angeles. In noir and neo-noir films since the... -
European Cinema and Continental Philosophy: Film As Thought Experiment Thomas Elsaesser (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) 9781441182210
SciFier: £38.75This groundbreaking volume for the Thinking Cinema series focuses on the extent to which contemporary cinema contributes to political and philosophical thinking about the future of Europe's core... -
My Perfectly Imperfect Body Debbie Tung 9781524890025
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46From celebrated author and illustrator Debbie Tung comes My Perfectly Imperfect Body, a frank, honest, and deeply vulnerable graphic memoir that chronicles the author's journey of overcoming... -
Hollywood's Others: Love and Limitation in the Star System Katherine Fusco 9780231220910
SciFier: £88.06We tend to think about movie stars as either glamorous or relatable. But in the 1920s and 1930s, when the Hollywood star system was taking shape, a number of unusual stars appeared on the silver... -
Blood Justice Terry J. Benton-Walker 9781399715966
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.34Blood Justice is the hotly anticipated sequel to Terry J. Benton-Walker's debut Blood Debts.Cristina and Clement Trudeau have conjured the impossible: justice. Having restored their family's stolen... -
Hollywood's Others: Love and Limitation in the Star System Katherine Fusco 9780231220927
SciFier: £23.54We tend to think about movie stars as either glamorous or relatable. But in the 1920s and 1930s, when the Hollywood star system was taking shape, a number of unusual stars appeared on the silver... -
The Textile Reader Professor Jessica Hemmings (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) 9781350239845
RRP: £36.99SciFier: £35.43Addressing textiles as a distinctive area of cultural practice and field of scholarly research, The Textile Reader introduces students to the key issues essential to the exploration of the textile... -
When the Museum is Closed Emi Yagi 9781529935004
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.95There she stood. A goddess. I was in love with the marble goddess.When Rika Horauchi accepts an unusual new part-time job, she never expects to fall in love.Rika has been tasked with talking to... -
Unflattening by Nick Sousanis
RRP: £21.95SciFier: £18.76The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening... -
Migration in Contemporary Hispanic Cinema by Thomas G. Deveny
SciFier: £113.99Immigration is an important and much-discussed topic throughout the world, and its depiction on screen helps shape the way we perceive this issue. In Migration in Contemporary Hispanic Cinema, Thomas... -
Sex and Suits by Anne Hollander (N/A)
SciFier: £29.39Since the dawn of western fashion in the Middle Ages, women's dress has never stopped evolving, yet menswear has seen far fewer style revolutions. At the centre of the male wardrobe is the suit:... -
The Separation Christopher Priest 9781473233058
GatewayRRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.97THE SEPARATION is the story of twin brothers, rowers in the 1936 Olympics (where they met Hess, Hitler's deputy); one joins the RAF, and captains a Wellington; he is shot down after a bombing raid on... -
Sustainable Luxury and Social Entrepreneurship: Stories from the Pioneers Miguel Angel Gardetti 9781783530632
SciFier: £38.53Luxury products are now seen by a growing number of global consumers as an important and more widely available way of expressing personal aspirations and values. Most consumers of luxury products and... -
All Joking Aside: American Humor and Its Discontents Rebecca Krefting (Assistant Professor, Skidmore College) 9781421414294
RRP: £43.00SciFier: £31.58In this examination of stand-up comedy, Rebecca Krefting establishes a new genre of comedic production, "charged humor," and charts its pathways from production to consumption. Some jokes are tears... -
Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii B. Ruh 9781137355676
SciFier: £26.99Upon its US release in the mid 1990s, Ghost in the Shell , directed by Mamoru Oshii, quickly became one of the most popular Japanese animated films in the country. Despite this, Oshii is known as a... -
The Analysis of Film by Raymond Bellour
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.56"No serious student of film should miss the great work collected in this volume."-W. A. Vincent, Choice"When so much writing about film is based on overall impressions or shadowy memories, on notes... -
All Joking Aside: American Humor and Its Discontents Rebecca Krefting (Assistant Professor, Skidmore College) 9781421414300
SciFier: £22.99In this examination of stand-up comedy, Rebecca Krefting establishes a new genre of comedic production, "charged humor," and charts its pathways from production to consumption. Some jokes are tears... -
Wearing the Niqab by Anna Piela (Northwestern University, USA)
SciFier: £33.99Bringing niqab wearers' voices to the fore, discussing their narratives on religious agency, identity, social interaction, community, and urban spaces, Anna Piela situates women's accounts firmly... -
War Games: Memory, Militarism and the Subject of Play Philip Hammond (London South Bank University, UK) 9781501382529
SciFier: £34.99Many of today's most commercially successful videogames, from Call of Duty to Company of Heroes, are war-themed titles that play out in what are framed as authentic real-world settings inspired by... -
Archive of Unknown Universes Ruben Reyes Jr. 9781804442739
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £6.97From the author of There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven, this piercing, genre-bending debut follows two families in alternative timelines of the Salvadoran civil war in a stunning exploration of... -
Task Lyst Scott Hylbert 9781684423163
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46Do you need to have someone walk your dog? How about to deliver your groceries? Or your drugs? How about carry out a hit? Are you looking for a side hustle to pay the rent, but want to hide your... -
Documentary's Awkward Turn: Cringe Comedy and Media Spectatorship Jason Middleton 9781138645554
SciFier: £42.00Despite the prominence of "awkwardness" as cultural buzzword and descriptor of a sub-genre of contemporary film and television comedy, it has yet to be adequately theorized in academic film and media...